The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-03-17

N3 during the SIX months enQeO reDruarg y
2S, 1885, Mineral oil exports for February
last amounted to s2, 400, 1S2, against SS,259,'
461 in February, 1886.
THE National League of Musicians of tha
United States, in session al Chicago re
Gently passed resolutions asking Congress
| for protection
| FRANK G. BUDD, an absconding New
York broker, has been brought back from
Montreal
In the Common Pleas Court at Columbus
O., Judge Duncan sustained the demurrer
| in the indictment in the election tally sheet
forgery cases. The reason assigned was
because no copy of the tally sheet was sci
out in the Indictment
CHARGES of heresy have been preferred
| by student of the Yale theological schoo
against Prof. John E. Russell.
THE body Of woman was found recently
in barrel at the Adams Express Office
Boston.
THE Stanley expedition for the relief oi
Emin Bey left Cape Town, South Africa, or
the 10th for the Congo.
Two persons were killed and ten injured
| by an explosion Of melinite in the arsenal
at Belfort, France, recently.
| THE $1,000 appropriated by Congress for
the militia will not become available until
July 1.
EXTRAORDINARY activity is displayed at
Krupp's works at Essen in filling orders
| for guns for the German Government.
ALL but one of the cooperage firms OF
| New York and Brooklyn gave in to the
! strikers.
! THE German Catholic editors and publish.
ers met at Cincinnati on the 10th to form q
| German-American Catholic Press Associa
| ton.
THE French Chamber of Deputies, by a
vote of 32S against 23S, has approved the
| bill imposing a duty of five francs per kilos
on wheat imports.
THE Shah of Persia has granted "a, 900
square yards of ground to DR.. W. W. Tor
renee, physician of the American Presby,
terian Board OF Missions, for hospital at
Teheran.
GOVERNOR MAJ, of the Portuguese settle
ment on the Island of Timor in the Malay
Archipelago, has been assassinated by ma
tives. Five regiments have been sent to
the colony from Macao
THE schooner Grace Bradley has been
wrecked at the Delaware breakwater. She
was bound from Cienfuegos for Boston with
5,021 bags of sugar. The cargo was valued
at sG6, ,0O0
A FREIGHT train at Southington, Conn,
ran into an open switch the other day and
caused considerable damage. No lives were
lost
JAMES l. DAVID, agent of the Usage In
dians of the Indian Territory, has been sus-
pended by Indian Inspector Bannister and
Special Agent White has been temporarily
placed in charge of the agency.
THE post-office at Tubac. A. T., has been
blown up with dynamite. The outrage
was believed to have been the work of
Mexicans.
4 FRESH shock of earthquake was felt at
Nice and other places in Europe at 2:5O
o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th and
created a panic among the people. The vi
brations travelled from the northeast to the
southwest.
ADvICEs from Rustchuk say that fourteen
non commissioned officers who participated
in the recent Bulgarian revolt were shot on
the J lth near Rasgrad.
Two colored women and man were tarred
and feathered recently at Manassas, Va, by
three white men, who were arrested for the
offense.
TIE strike of railroad laborers at Sault
Junction, Mich, assumed a serious phase on
the 11th. The strikers took possession of
Contractors were arming themselves, and
the sheriff was called upon to send help.
THE business failures during the seven
days ended March 10 numbered for the Uni
ted States 230; Canada, 52; total 2S2; COM
pared with 229 the previous week and 239 the
corresponding week last year. The in
crcases were mainly attributed to Canada
and the British provinces. A considerable
increase was also apparent in the Pacific
States and the South.
THE Presidents of the trunk lines, in ses-
sion recently at Chicago, made some radi
cal changes. Second-class rates were aboI-
ished east Of Chicago also agents commits
sions.
ARTHUR DEMING, late of Sligo County.
Ind, was insured in the 1Etna Life Insur-
ance Company for $4,000. After his death
the company refused payment on the ground
that he had killed himself through intem-
perance. Suit was brought to recover, and
the jury brought in verdict against the
company for $4,000. An appeal to the Su-
preme Court will be taken.
SPECIAL rates are to be allowed on all
roads leading to Washington on the occa-
sion of the national driil-three-quarters OF
cent per mile each way.